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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for the interesting age cutoff history. I enjoy parent rep drama as a parent rep myself!

Our club has a lot of really successful summer birthday swimmers. It definitely helps to turning 9 and competing against a group with a lot of 6-7 year olds, or turning 13 and competing against just-turned 11 year olds. Those are some big jumps physically and developmentally. I have a spring birthday kid so she is young for most activities that she does and the youngest in her grade because of pandemic redshirting. It is what it is so all you can do is observe it and shrug it off. When it gets my kid down, I gently remind her that she is being compared to kids who were in preschool when she was born. That helps give her some perspective.[/quote]
A “turning 9” won’t compete against a 6 year old. They will be competing against 7-8 year olds. The max age difference remains 24 months. 
Example: youngest kid in 7-8 bracket turned 7 on June 1st. Oldest kid was 8 on June 1st, turned 9 on June 2. 24 months.[/quote]

Do these people not realize no matter when the cutoff is, it’s still the same? There will always be one kid who is the youngest and one kid who is the youngest.  It’s like they can’t do math. [/quote]

Right except if you use actual birthdays, you don’t have a situation where a kid doesn’t belong in that age bracket at all, but is swimming it because a bunch of team reps got together and decided to change the rules from the way the rest of competitive swimming works in order to advantage their own kids. [/quote]

[b]The rule was age on June 1st when the NVSL was created.[/b] If you don’t like the rule, find another swim league. [/quote]

This statement is not true.  NVSL used to be like the rest of swim and you aged up on your birthday REGARDLESS of when in the season.  LESS than ten years ago a movement to change the rule was pushed.  I know that first hand several of the leads for this had kids with JUNE birthdays - shocking, right?  They pushed a rule that benefitted their child and allowed their kids to come back and swim AFTER they went to college.

It was gamesmanship on their part.  The fact that people would like to change is back or to something else is also quite reasonable.[/quote]

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